Arkansas among 4 of top 5 nationally ranked teams contending for SEC Outdoor title

OXFORD, Miss. – No. 5 Arkansas faces one other stern problem this weekend because the Razorback squad makes an attempt so as to add one other convention group title to its spectacular assortment throughout the SEC Outside Championships held on the Ole Miss Monitor & Subject Complicated this Thursday by means of Saturday.

Protection of the meet might be obtainable by means of SEC Community + (stream and broadcast) Thursday by means of Saturday. The finals held from 5 to 9 p.m. on Saturday will air on the SEC Community. Dwell outcomes can be found by means of https://stay.deltatiming.com/meets/15663.

4 convention groups be a part of Arkansas among the many nation’s prime 5 faculties within the newest nationwide group rankings index. Texas A&M is ranked No. 2, adopted by Florida, LSU, and the Razorbacks.

Different SEC faculties within the prime 25 embody No. 7 Kentucky, No. 17 South Carolina, No. 20 Ole Miss, and No. 22 Auburn.

In convention rankings, which accounts extra for group depth, LSU holds an edge over Florida for the highest place as Kentucky, Arkansas, and Texas A&M spherical out the highest 5 faculties. The following 5 positions embody Ole Miss, Auburn, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi State.

“This week we moved as much as No. 5 within the nation and there are nonetheless three groups within the SEC forward of us,” famous Razorback girls’s head coach Lance Harter. “Florida, LSU and Texas A&M have distinctive groups, to say the least, nationally. This yr they occur to have nice convention groups as effectively. So, we’re going to have a battle once more to attempt to neutralize these three.

“The purpose is to attain 100 factors, however none of them will come straightforward. We’re within the dialog and the meet could come all the way down to the 4 x 400 relay once more. The 5,000m is true earlier than the relay and that occasion is one in all our key occasions.”

Arkansas’ latest run of SEC titles contains 22 of the previous 23 contested amongst cross nation, indoor and outside observe and discipline seasons. The Razorbacks have claimed the previous seven SEC Outside group titles and every one has accomplished a SEC Triple Crown for Arkansas.

“We’re loading the gap occasions up with a view to keep aggressive on this meet,” mentioned Harter. “We have to hearth on all cylinders. We try to maximise our scoring potential within the center distance and distances as finest we will.”

Arkansas has a trio of athletes with prime seeds heading into the SEC Championships, and a pair of them are additionally collegiate leaders in 2022.

Lauren Gregory is the collegiate chief within the 10,000m along with her 32:34.21 debut victory on the Stanford Invitational. Britton Wilson held the world lead within the 400m hurdles for over a month along with her Texas Relays meet document efficiency of 54.37. Jada Baylark has a windy convention better of 10.83 within the 100m.

Along with the prowess of their respective main occasion, they every rank in convention scoring positions for a secondary occasion as effectively.

With a 15:25.17 finest within the 5,000m this season, Gregory ranks second within the SEC to a 15:17.28 by Alabama’s Mercy Chelangat. Gregory may even contest the 1,500m for the primary time this season, outdoors of her third leg effort on the collegiate document victory on the Penn Relays.

Becoming a member of Gregory within the 1,500m are Krissy Gear, Kennedy Thomson, and Carmie Prinsloo. Additionally racing within the 5,000m for Arkansas are Logan Jolly, Isabel Van Camp, Prinsloo, Sydney Thorvaldson, and Adoette Vaughan.

Jolly (9:45.47) and Gear (10:00.26) will double within the 3,000m steeplechase the place they rank second and third within the SEC behind Auburn’s Joyce Kimeli, who leads the league with a 9:41.15. Final season, Gear defeated Kimeli (9:47.32) and broke the meet document with a 9:38.62 efficiency that additionally grew to become the UA college document.

Wilson, who set the varsity document within the 400m indoors, moved to 3rd on the Razorback outside all-time listing with a 50.97 meet document victory on the Arkansas Twilight final weekend. She at present ranks third within the SEC within the 400m and might be joined by teammates Rosey Effiong, Ashanti Denton, and Morgan Burks-Magee.

Along with main the 100m discipline, Baylark ranks sixth within the 200m with a 22.92. Effiong may even race within the 200m whereas Joanne Reid joins Baylark within the 100m and 200m.

“Britton is an distinctive expertise,” famous Harter. “Coach Chris Johnson has been racing her within the 400 and 400 hurdles previously couple of meets to organize her for that double within the convention meet. Final weekend displayed her capability as she did a incredible job in profitable each occasions with a 50.97 within the 400 after which coming again an hour later to run 55.41.”

A pole vault discipline of 27 contains 5 Razorbacks, 4 of which rank among the many prime 10 within the SEC this season. Main the group with a top of 14-4.5 (4.38) is Amanda Fassold, who ranks third within the league behind LSU’s Lisa Gunnarsson (15-3 | 4.65) and Lyndsey Reed of Ole Miss (14-5.5 | 4.41).

Becoming a member of Fassold are teammates Kaitlyn Banas, Elien Vekemans, Mackenzie Hayward, and Bailee McCorkle. Vekemans claimed the SEC Indoor title and has vaulted solely twice outside as she recovers from a foot damage.

Scoring potential for the Razorbacks additionally contains Yoveinny Mota within the 100m hurdles, the place she ranks sixth with a windy 12.98, in addition to the potent Arkansas 4 x 400 relay, at present third within the SEC with a 3:26.40.